AP - Tropical Storm Fay meandered north along the Florida Atlantic coast Wednesday but did not immediately head out over the ocean, lessening the chances it will gain strength and become a hurricane.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.
AP - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.
AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.
AP - Crystl Bustos hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning as the U.S. Olympic softball team beat Japan 4-1 in extra innings and will play for its fourth straight gold medal.
AP - For school bus driver Jamille Aine, a cold is more than an inconvenience. His employer does not offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills.
AP - Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign.
AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.
AP - The Tampa Bay Rays have been on top of the AL East for the last month. Now, they are on top of the whole league. Willy Aybar's two-run single broke an eighth-inning tie and the Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-2 on Tuesday night to claim the AL's best record (77-48), which matches the Chicago Cubs for the best in the majors.
Reuters - In a sharp turnaround, Republican
John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama
in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager
of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on
Wednesday.
Reuters - Russian military trucks
crossed from Georgia back into Russia on Wednesday but there
was no sign of the large-scale, rapid pullout demanded by the
West.
Reuters - The United States and Poland signed a
deal on Wednesday to station elements of a U.S. missile defense
shield on Polish soil, a move certain to aggravate
Russia-Western tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.
Reuters - Digital media and dazzling sport have
won unprecedented ratings, Olympics bosses said on Wednesday as
they debuted two events aimed at the young and adventurous.
Reuters - Five American blogger-activists and a
foreign artist have been detained in Beijing as the government
intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home
stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.
Reuters - The U.S. government has been using
its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that
will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy
advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Reuters - A joint venture created by LandCap Partners is
buying $40 million of troubled land and construction loans from
Wachovia Corp The Wall Street Journal said.
Reuters - Deadlock between Pakistan's coalition
partners over the restoration of deposed judges has raised
questions about the survival of the government that forced
President Pervez Musharraf's resignation.
AFP - Poland and the United States on Wednesday signed a deal to deploy part of a US missile shield on Polish territory in the face of deep Russian anger.
AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday told French soldiers mourning 10 comrades killed by the Taliban that their work in Afghanistan was essential for the "freedom of the world" and must continue.
